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Events from the year 1950 in the United Kingdom.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- 26 January - India becomes a republic, severing all ties with the United Kingdom.[1]
- 24 February - Clement Attlee wins the general election, giving Labour a second term in government after their election triumph in 1945.[2]
- 1 March - Klaus Fuchs convicted of supplying nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.[3]
- 6 March–8 March - The 1950 World Figure Skating Championships are held in London.
- 8 March - Carmaker Rover tests a revolutionary new turbine-powered concept car.[4]
- 12 March - 75 of the 78 people on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes at Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster for the time.
- 13 May - First Grand Prix held at Silverstone.[5]
- 26 May - Motor fuel rationing comes to an end after 11 years, marking another phasing-out of rationing that was introduced in the wake of the Second World War.[6]
- 7 June - pilot episode of the long-running radio series The Archers broadcast.[7]
- 11 July - first broadcast of the popular BBC children's programme Andy Pandy.[7]
- 31 July - Sainsbury's opens the first purpose-built supermarket, at Croydon.[8]
- 27 August - the BBC makes its first television broadcast from the European continent.[7]
- 29 August - 4,000 British troops are sent to Korea.[9]
- 8 September - 116 miners trapped underground in a landslide at Knockshinnoch Castle colliery at New Cumnock in Ayrshire, Scotland.[10]
- 9 September - Post-War soap rationing ends.[8]
- 26 October - The rebuilt House of Commons, following its destruction by bombing in World War II, is used for the first time.[7]
- 10 December
- 25 December - The Stone of Scone, the traditional coronation stone of Scottish monarchs, English monarchs and more recently British monarchs, was stolen from London's Westminster Abbey by a group of four Scottish students.[7] It later turned up in Scotland on 11 April 1951.
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[edit] Births
- 4 February - Pamela Franklin, actress
- 13 February - Peter Gabriel, musician
- 16 February - Peter Hain, politician
- 19 February - Andy Powell, musician (Wishbone Ash)
- 22 February - Julie Walters, actress
- 27 March - Terry Yorath, footballer and football manager
- 30 March - Robbie Coltrane, actor and comedian
- 3 April - Sally Thomsett, actress
- 22 April - Peter Frampton, musician
- 1 May - Danny McGrain, footballer
- 3 May - Mary Hopkin, singer
- 11 May - Jeremy Paxman, television presented and author
- 17 May - Alan Johnson, politician
- 22 May - Bernie Taupin, songwriter
- 22 May - Mary Tamm, actress
- 1 June - Tom Robinson, singer and musician
- 13 June - Nick Brown, politician
- 14 June - Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 14 July - Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer
- 18 July - Richard Branson, entrepreneur
- 19 July - Simon Cadell, actor
- 26 July - Susan George, actress
- 30 July - Harriet Harman, politician
- 15 August - Anne, Princess Royal
- 14 September - Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (died 1976)
- 21 September - Charles Clarke, politician
- 6 December - Helen Liddell, politician
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[edit] References
- ^ "India becomes a republic", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Labour wins slim majority", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Communist spy jailed for 14 years", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Gas turbine car gets road test", BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
- ^ The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ "UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ a b c d e (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 401-402. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "British troops arrive in Korea", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Miners trapped underground by landslide", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ a b (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
[edit] See also
1950 in the United Kingdom 
England | 
Scotland
